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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5493</guid> <description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court has again jumped into the fray over the legality of medical marijuana laws, deciding this week to review two lower-court rulings that affect how and whether local governments can regulate pot dispensaries across the state. In their weekly closed-door session Wednesday, the justices voted unanimously to review cases from Long Beach <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5487</guid> <description><![CDATA[UPLAND &#8211; The California Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to review an appeal filed by an Upland medical marijuana cooperative. Counsel representing G3 Holistic in Upland filed the appeal in December following a decision in November by the Fourth District Appellate Court in Riverside siding with the city&#8217;s ban on medical marijuana dispensaries through its <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5375</guid> <description><![CDATA[A young Mendocino man whose legal plight has become a cause célèbre for medical marijuana advocates appeared in Mendocino County court Thursday in hopes of halting extradition to Texas. Mendocino County Judge Ann Moorman told Chris Diaz&#8217; attorney, Don Lipmanson, he needed to submit that request to Texas authorities. “I don&#8217;t have any jurisdiction,” she <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5349</guid> <description><![CDATA[One year after a group dubbed the “SLO 12” was arrested during an undercover investigation into medical marijuana dispensaries, some local activists are still fuming. About 10 people gathered Tuesday morning outside San Luis Obispo Superior Court on Monterey Street to protest the arrests, Nick Wilson reports in The Tribune. They held signs supporting “safe <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://calpotnews.com/?p=5331</guid> <description><![CDATA[In response to a court order, the Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Friday afternoon returned 2 pounds of medicinal marijuana to a dispensary from which it was seized earlier this month. A Sacramento Superior Court judge Friday morning ordered the Sheriff&#8217;s Department to return the marijuana to the Common Roots Collective, Kim Minugh reports in the <a
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